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use strict;
use warnings;
package Email::Folder::Maildir;
# ABSTRACT: reads raw RFC822 mails from a maildir
$Email::Folder::Maildir::VERSION = '0.859';
use Carp;
use IO::File;
use Email::Folder::Reader;
use parent 'Email::Folder::Reader';

#pod =head1 SYNOPSIS
#pod
#pod This isa Email::Folder::Reader - read about its API there.
#pod
#pod =head1 DESCRIPTION
#pod
#pod Does exactly what it says on the tin - fetches raw RFC822 mails from a
#pod maildir.
#pod
#pod The maildir format is described at
#pod L<http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/maildir.html>
#pod
#pod =cut

sub _what_is_there {
    my $self = shift;
    my $dir = $self->{_file};

    croak "$dir does not exist"    unless (-e $dir);
    croak "$dir is not a maildir"  unless (-d $dir);
    croak "$dir is not a maildir"  unless (-e "$dir/cur" && -d "$dir/cur");
    croak "$dir is not a maildir"  unless (-e "$dir/new" && -d "$dir/new");

    my @messages;
    # ignore the tmp directory although the spec
    # says to delete anything in tmp/ that is older than 36 hours
    for my $sub (qw(new cur)) {
        opendir(DIR,"$dir/$sub") or croak "Could not open '$dir/$sub'";
        foreach my $file (readdir DIR) {
            next if $file =~ /^\./; # as suggested by DJB
            push @messages, "$dir/$sub/$file";
        }
    }

    $self->{_messages} = \@messages;
}

sub next_message {
    my $self = shift;
    my $what = $self->{_messages} || $self->_what_is_there;

    my $file = shift @$what or return;
    local *FILE;
    open FILE, $file or croak "couldn't open '$file' for reading";
    join '', <FILE>;
}

1;

__END__

=pod

=encoding UTF-8

=head1 NAME

Email::Folder::Maildir - reads raw RFC822 mails from a maildir

=head1 VERSION

version 0.859

=head1 SYNOPSIS

This isa Email::Folder::Reader - read about its API there.

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Does exactly what it says on the tin - fetches raw RFC822 mails from a
maildir.

The maildir format is described at
L<http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/maildir.html>

=head1 AUTHORS

=over 4

=item *

Simon Wistow <simon@thegestalt.org>

=item *

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>

=back

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2006 by Simon Wistow.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

=cut